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Subject: Re: Collector's Corner..A Call To Arms!

Author: A. Zanchetta

Date: 10:45:51 11/06/05

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On November 06, 2005 at 12:56:07, Uri Blass wrote:

.......

I simply do not agree :

1) Resurrection's hardware is more powerful that dedicated computers but far
behind today's PC. Running a match between Fruit on Res and any other program on
a PC is like running a game between a PC and Sargon III running on my Apple II :
useless. If you want to see how Fruit performs against other programs, put it on
a PC !

One example : Fruit on Pocket PC. If you look closely, you will see that Res
hardware is a lot closer to a Pocket Pc than to a PC.
Fruit 2.1 on my laptop evaluated approximately one million positions / second
(that's what I remember from the tests I made with Fruit 2.1 when I was porting
it to PPC) and Fruit on a Medium range pocket PC evaluates 30 000 positions /
second.
I will never make a match between Fruit on my Pocket PC and another program on
my PC and try to conclude something from this match !!!!

2) The Res is a module for dedicated chess computers and it has to be compared
to other dedicated chess computers.
Most people interested by PC vs PC programs are not interested by dedicated
machines and vice versa.

3) I also do not agree about your conclusion that Active Chess is the only
chance for another dedicated computer to fight against Fruit, and only counting
on a bug in time management. I think that longer time controls will reduce the
difference between different hardwares and therefore be more significant of the
difference between the programs themselves.
Of course, I think Res/Fruit will win a 40 moves / 2 hours games against any
chess computer, but I would like to see a measure of their strength differences.

Alain



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